Chapter 357: Provoking a Fight
Chapter 357: Provoking a Fight
As soon as the car stops, mutant cats cry out one after another in the gaps between the cars, while mutant mice howl deafeningly behind Zhan Lian. Strangely, neither side fights to the death; instead, they block Zhang Boxun’s and Zhan Lian’s cars, surrounding them.
Seeing Zhang Boxun facing the mutant cats ahead and Zhan Lian surrounded by mutant mice behind, An Ran immediately urges the trees by the roadside. She feels she has to do something—otherwise, relying on others for protection is too passive.
The cat on the roof of Zhang Boxun’s car raises its head, meows, and swoops straight toward An Ran in the co-pilot seat. Its posture leaves no doubt—it can break the glass with one strike.
Without time to hide her clumsiness, green vines quickly form a plant net in her hands, protecting Doll in her arms and sticking to the car window.
But as the mutant cat lunges, a metal net and a rotating arc knife appear in the air, cutting the mutant cat that aims to attack Doll into pieces midair.
Zhan Lian blocks the mutant rats behind the convoy and shouts to Yun Tao, “Go ahead, I’ll hold off the cats.”
Yun Tao presses the gas pedal with a roar. Many powered fighters jump out of their vehicles to move the scattered cars blocking the road. Zhang Boxun’s lead truck is covered with spikes, resembling a giant hedgehog, forcibly breaking through the blockade. Several vehicles, including the medical ambulance, charge into the crowd of cats.
At the back of the convoy, Zhan Lian throws several knives with big rats on the blade. He shouts angrily, “Come here, food’s here!”
The large cats in the gaps between cars leap up, biting the rats off the blades and dropping into the cat pack. The surrounding cats swarm, tearing the rats apart and devouring them.
Judging by their fangs, they seem particularly strong. Their bodies are light and agile. After finishing the rats, they scatter quickly, but the knife blades left behind are all bitten through!
Many cats taste the benefit and gradually begin swarming toward the last truck with Zhan Lian and Luo Feifan, successfully drawing them into battle.
However, Zhan Lian and Luo Feifan themselves get caught in the middle of a cat-and-rat war.
Thanks to their distraction and the natural predator-prey chain—cats eat rats, rats eat humans, and humans kill both cats and rats—Zhang Boxun’s lead truck breaks free from the battle zone and stops near Tiesi Village.
The distance between the county and Tiesi Village isn’t far—only about half an hour by road. Scattered along the road are a few rustic farmhouses, and the first obstacle to Tiesi Village is set up next to one such farmhouse.
Zhang Boxun hurriedly gets out of the truck, glances back at An Ran inside, then enters the checkpoint. He informs the guards about the cat-and-rat crisis in the county.
Hearing this, the guards’ faces change dramatically. They don’t even check Zhang Boxun’s temperature and immediately send people to drive into Tiesi Village to report to Tang Jianjun.
Because the county and Tiesi Village are so close, whether the cats win over the rats or the rats over the cats, it will be bad for humans. If one side depletes the other, they will turn to eating humans out of hunger. With so many people in Tiesi Village, it is basically a huge food storage for them.
An Ran sits in the truck, frowning, holding Doll and pulling the vines in the cockpit. She wonders what Zhang Boxun means when he looks back at her just now.